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  • Lost Plays Database

    As stated by the site the editors of the site see a potential wealth of information on playwrites, venues in England, play companies, audience, and repertory writing.
  • Women Writers Project

    The Women Writers Project is a research project that is still on going but involves the process of bringing and resurfacing of Early Modern women's writing into the light through the use of quoting Early Modern women writers, graphing plays, and creating blog posts.
  • Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

    This project explores the Salem Witch Trials by using primary sources from the 17th century, including historical maps, books, letters, images, and court records. The project also explores the important people of the time period.
  • Lost Plays Database

    The Lost Plays Database is a wiki-style forum for scholars to share information about lost plays in England, 1570-1642. Its purpose is to add lost plays to scholarly discussions of early modern theatrical activity.
  • Women Writers Project

    The Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding by bringing texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and making them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.
  • Turkey vessel

    A vessel shaped like a female turkey used to make hot cocoa.
  • Coffeepot

    Talks about a coffee pot from 1755 in The Met Art Gallery.
  • Soap Bubbles

    Inscription: Signed (left, on stone): ·J·chardin
  • Terracotta chariot krater

    preserved clay vase displaying chariot and riders
  • Kris

    73cm in Length (65.1cm Blade). 17.1cm in Width (5.2cm Blade). 1360.8g in Weight. Kris blade forged in an asymmetrical, wavy fashion. Hilt is wrapped in several layers of various materials. A short rope is attached to the top of the hilt, likely used to tie the blade to the body. The blade itself is a dull gray with signs of wear, especially around the tip of the sword.
  • Covered Figural Dish

    A covered dish shaped like a duck, made of pressed clear amethyst and black and green opaque glass.
  • America (one of a pair)

    A German porcelain figurine possibly meant to hold candles. Depicting a woman in a white and gold cloak, multi-colored skirt and crown, resting atop an alligator(?) and holding a parrot. Behind her is a gold gilded
  • View of Yosemite Valley

    It is an oil painting by Thomas Hill that portrays the landscape of Yosemite Valley in 1885.
  • Music

    A medal plaquette that is gray in color. It is struck bronze with a light brown patina. It has an image of a person playing the harp; behind the person, there is an obverse signature that says "A.Rivet." There is an inscription that says "LA MUSIQUE" on the left edge. There is also a Paris mint mark along the edge as well.
  • The Plum Blossom that Flew on Lightning from Chikushino

  • Piece

    Gift of Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori
  • Cat and Kittens

    A gray, unglazed Banko ware (sculpture) of a cat with four kittens crawling on/around its feet and back. Dimensions: H. 4 in. (10.2 cm); W. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); D. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
  • Netsuke of Girl Playing with a Cat

    Japanese miniature sculpture of a girl playing with a cat Dimensions: H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 1 in. (2.5 cm); D. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
  • Clothing box decorated with peony scrolls

    This box demonstrates stylistic variations on the peony scroll, a favorite design on Korean lacquer ware ornamented with shimmering abalone shells, or mother-of-pearl. Here, the large luscious blooms are accentuated.
  • Evening stole

  • Meta Vaux Warrick, c. 1879

  • Belgenland

  • Unfortunate Creatures

    The website provides basic information about natural disasters between 1200-1800 in the UK. Shows users the information through maps, links, and a timeline.
  • Bomb Sight - Mapping the London World War 2 London Bomb Blitz Census

    A map of London from October 7th, 1940 - June 6th 1941. The map uses data from the bomb census to chronicle the location and timing of each bomb launched upon the city during the blitz.
  • Unfortunate Creatures.

    Peer reviewed sources displaying a timeline of all natural disasters taking place in the pre modern period, including floods, plagues and famine on a worldwide scale taking place up until 1800 through timelines, maps, and videos.